Friday, October 12, 2012

What she did on her "summer vacation"

Dr. Jenny Harper in Spain


Dr. Jenny Harper began participating this past summer in the University System of Georgia’s European Council—a study abroad initiative with programs in Madrid, London, Paris, Berlin, and now Scotland (thanks to our own David Nelson). Dr. Harper applied for a fellowship to the Madrid, Spain program last year and was accepted, she believes, “because they had never had a biologist travel and teach with them before.” The fellowship included her flight, room and board, and most meals for 10 days this summer. “While I was there,” she says, “the goal for me was to use the time to plan what I would teach, how I would teach it, and what field trips I would take my classes on.” She is now obligated to teach in the program in Spain one semester between now and 2015.